Join us for our next Developer Jam Session.

Topic: VoiceObjects goes Multi-channel – developing web applications for the iPhone and other mobile browsers

Date: April 22, 2010

Time: 8am Pacific, 11am Eastern, 5pm Central European

Speaker: Andreas Volmer, Presales Manager EMEA, Voxeo Germany GmbH

Abstract: The VoiceObjects Server platform allows creating multi-channel services across IVR, Texting (SMS, IM, USSD,…) and Mobile Web channels. In this developer jam session, we will focus on the latter.

We will show how to create state-of-the-art mobile web applications, based on service configuration in the VoiceObjects Desktop environment. In particular, we will show how to create web applications for the iPhone that look and behave similar to native apps.

Join us for this developer jam session on April 22, 2010

Originally from Voxeo Blogs

If you are attending VoiceCon this week in Orlando, Voxeo’s Dan York will be speaking in 3 sessions at the event:

• Securing Communications, 45-minute panel, today at 3:15pm
• SIP Fundamentals and Prospects, 3-hour tutorial, Tuesday 2-5pm
• Challenges in Achieving the Promise of Presence, 45-minute panel session, Wednesday 3pm

More information is on our VoiceCon event page.

If you are at VoiceCon and would like to meet up with Dan, you can contact him via email or send him a message on Twitter as @danyork

Originally from Voxeo Blogs

VXI* VoiceXML browser 4.4 for Asterisk, Cloud-Ready EC2 Telephony Solution. After months,working with the VXI* Cloud Beta Program, we are please to unveil VXI* last packages have been built and tested to run over  EC2 Virtual Servers with a special activation key (production servers).  Now, you can build your own virtual IVR servers for your VoiceXML applications or  manage yourself a Cloud Telephony Service.

Recommended final packages for EC2:

» Cloud Ready: CentOS 5 VXI* 4.4 / Asterisk 1.4 for EC2 32bit | 64bit

VXI* VoiceXML browser can run with more virtual OS environnements, but current activation keys are only available for Amazon EC2 virtual servers.

Thank you for your continuous support!

Originally from i6net

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Originally from TMCnet.com

We would like to invite you to our upcoming Jam Session, which is scheduled for Thursday, March 18, 2010.

Adam Kalsey will show you how to use web technologies and tools to create user interfaces that operate outside of the browser window. You will learn what channels you can tie into and how to, what’s involved in adding voice and real-time text to new or existing Web applications.

Join us for this session on March 18, 2010.

It is scheduled for 11:00 Am Eastern, 08:00 AM Western, 4:00 PM Central European time

Originally from Voxeo Blogs

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Originally from Voxeo Blogs

Over the next bit I’m going to profile a number of different Unified Self-Service examples to show how multi-channel communication can help connect people with the information they want using the communication channel of their choice.

The first example I’ll mention is the “opensenate” project that independent developer Mark Headd launched back in June 2009 shortly after we had acquired IMified. As Mark describes in a blog post, he used IMified, the PHP programming language and the NY State Senate Open Legislation API to create a service where anyone can find out the status of any bill before the NY State Senate through voice, SMS, IM or Twitter.

You can try this service yourself through any of these channels (two bills I’ve used as a query are “s1234″ and “s2411″):

Phone:	(646) 736-2439
SMS:	(315) 308-1943
Jabber IM:	opensenate@bot.im
Twitter:	@opensenate

When I sent in a query on the status of a bill via Jabber IM to “opensenate@bot.im”, the response looked like this:

Which nicely provides the link to the bill in question.

The same query sent it to Twitter as a public “@” message generated this response:

again with a link to the bill. Similarly, a SMS to 315-308-1943 produced this response on my iPhone:

And of course you can call the application on the phone, too.

ONE application – four different communication channels.
Now, if Mark wanted to, he could have added other IM interfaces like Yahoo, AOL or MSN. He could have added a web interface… although there already is a web interface through the NY State Senate.

Note, too, that Mark created this application without any connection to the NY State Senate. He was not employed or paid by the state of NY. He doesn’t even live in New York! The NY State Senate CIO Office made the OpenLeg API publicly available… Mark seized on it as an interesting experiment to mash up with IMified… and an application was born!

Now, this application was connected to a government database, but imagine offering the same kind of capability to a corporate package tracking system? Or a customer support knowledgebase?

Stay tuned for more examples…

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P.S. For the developers out there who would like to experiment with this application yourself, Mark Headd has made the PHP code available for download on the Github service. You just need to set it up on your own server and then use a (free) IMified.com account to connect to the various communication channels. You will also need a free account on our Evolution developer portal to add voice. For those who want to play more, Mark later added support for “Prowl” push notifications to the iPhone or iPod Touch.

Originally from Voxeo Blogs

Part of the culture here at Voxeo is that we like to have a good bit of fun… and we also like to play with new toys There are a good number of us, myself included, who are doing more these days with digital photography… we even have our own internal groupchat where we share tips, talk about gear and point out great photos we’ve seen out on the web.

Recently Andreas Volmer traveled to Orlando from our Cologne, Germany, office and brought with him a Lensbaby Composer lens for Nikon DSLRs. Several of us experimented with it and Andreas sent along this set of photos he took:

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It’s a funky lens in that you can tilt it to change the area where the main focus is. You need to manually focus it, but as you can see in the photos you can get some very interesting effects. Fun stuff!

Originally from Voxeo Blogs

What do you do if you generate over 1 terabyte of logging data each day? How do you begin to analyze that volume of data? And how do you make it so that 100,000+ developers can easily access their own individual logging data?

At the “splunk>live” event in Orlando, FL, on March 10, 2010, Voxeo CTO RJ Auburn spoke about how Voxeo uses Splunk to analyze logging data and monitor network operations. He also described how Splunk is integrated into both the “Prophecy Live Search” component of Voxeo’s Prophecy Hosting and also in the management console of Voxeo’s on-premise Prophecy communications platform. RJ’s slides are available on SlideShare and are also viewable here:

If you’d like to try out Voxeo services and experience the ability to rapidly analyze logs yourself, please head on over to www.voxeo.com/free to either sign up for a free developer account on our hosted platform or download a free copy of our Prophecy platform for Windows, Linux or Mac OS X.

Originally from Voxeo Blogs